The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-07-26
OHIO REPUBLICANS.
Indications of a Large Attendance-Mr.
Sherman's Endorsement the Only Topic.

Special o the Indianapolis Journal
TOLEDO, o., July 25.-The Republican State
convention which assemblies here on Wednes-
day next will have a body guard one of the
biggest political crowds that has ever swept
down upon a city in the Buckeye State. Already
the demand upon the hotels is three timee in
cess of their most elastic facilities, and every
lodging-house in the center of the city has been
drawn upon to provide accommodations for the
coming hosts. There 723 accredited dele
gates to the convention, while the total number
of people who will be attracted here by the event
is placed at $500, something visitors
to every delegate. Seven hundred of John
Shermans friends with two brass bands to
keep them in merry mood, will come spe-
cial train of ten cars from Mansfield, the Sena-
tors home; five hundred lusty-l Hinged Republic
ans are route from Cincinnati while Cleve-
land, sSSprngfel Sandusky, Youngstown
and many other cities will send the pride
and flower of their party organization
to lend eclat to the occasion. 1t will be a great
week for the Republicans of Ohio. and still
greater one for the city which has the honor of
bidding them welcome to its portals. And yet
it is not the business designated in the official
call of the State central committee that is re-
sponsble for the imminent Republican invasion
of Toledo If nothing more important than the
u
is doubtful whether the aggregated delegations
would be reinforced by five hundred visitors
much less five thousand. There is not the ghost
of sign of opposition to the denomination of
Governor Foraker by acclamation,' and as for the
rest of the ticket. it will be completed in half an
hour unless there is smashing of states and
breaking UP of combinations. The great feature
of the gathering, tie event which is bringing in
the leaders of the party great and small from the
four corners of the State is the proposed in
dorsement of Senator Shermans candidacy for
the presidency. This will be the tug Of war, the
first gun of the presidential campaign of 1888,
the renewal of the old contest in the State be-
tween the friends of the favorite sons of Maine
and Ohio. Whether Senator Sherman is wise
in seeking at this time and in the midst OF all
the circumstances an Endorsement of his claims
and qualifications, is question upon which not
a few of his warmest supporters have been
divided. Many of them have urged that nothing
which might be done by the gathering of the
present week would be binding upon the con-
vention of next year, and that a premature fore
ing of the issue would simply enable the oppo-
nents of the Senator'S claims and ambitions to
discover the weak points in their armor and
give them chance to make repairs. On the
other hand, it has been contended that the step
proposed fully warranted by precedent and
amply justified, moreover, by the national
character of the inquiry as to the temper Of
the party in the State regarding the Senator's
candidacy Argument concerning the advisa-
bility of the tep is to-day. however, thing of
the past The issue will be forced. and the Sen
ator will stand or fall by the result. Up to this
morning there seemed bare possibility that
the matter would be allowed to lie dormant, but
the arrival of Editor Cappellar. of Mansfield,
one of Sherman's chief leutenants, and chair
man of the State central committee, put all
speculation at rest. He said that the resolutions
would oe submitted at all odds, and that he did
not believe that there would be any conspicuous
opposition. Sherman" he says, 'desecvest he
confidence of the Republicans of Ohio. Maine
has annually indorsed Blaine. and Sherman's
friends in that State have made objections.
Indiana will indorse Harrison. Illinois, Lincoln,
and Iowa. Senator Allison. and it would be ex-
ceedingly ungrateful not to indorse the who
has been conspicuous a figure in the Republic
an party for the last quarter of centu ry."
William j. Kumler, another Sherman lieuten-
ant, was even moro emphatic. THE Blaine
men in Ohio ought TO concede the endorsements
in ali fairness ne said. when Sherman was
defeated in Chicago in 1884, instead of trying to
sow dscord in the ranks by exhibiting any sour |
ness he was the man to sound the keynote of
the campaign by a public appeal for harmony
and unity. The Blaine people ought not to for,
admir-, if they told the truth, that he did more to
make Blaine President than any other man in |
the country. If, in the face of his record IN the
last campaign they are still determined to down |
him. let them make the trial 1t will be at their
peril"
This kind OF talk indicates how bitter is the |
prevailing feeling
In the trouble regarding the Scomposition OF |
the State central committee. Senator Sherman |
and Governor Foraker are at odds. This after |
noon it was claimed that the friends of the for |
mer has pretty well succeeded in setting ND the |
BODY in his interest Then the friends of |
Foraker raised howl. They said he did not |
want and would not have an unfriendly COM |
mittee 1t meant a reduction of his majority. /
and as a consequence the knocking out of any /
chances he might have for the vce-presi- /
dental nomination. Besides this they /
contended that this was not presidential year
and that the Senator had right a control of |
the committee. To this the reply was gmade |
hat this Is the last convention before the one in
March which will elect the delegates to Chicago, /
AND that II sherman could not have the commit
tee now he mighta well have none at all. AS /
compromise it was proposed, this evening, in
Foakers behalf, that Sherman should have the
central committee and the Governor be allowed
to name the executive committee. This is being
held under adyisement.